Math is Marvelous

This game was created for students to practice completing income/expense ledgers before they learn about budgeting. My students ask me often if they can play it! The students take turns drawing a card, and on each card is either a particular income or expense for the student. The income or expense is recorded on the ledger (included), and a balance is calculated. Adding and subtracting numbers are practiced. The vocabulary of income and expense is practiced. The game may be played for a chos

This product consists of (8.5x11-size) design posters of the area of a rectangle formula, area of a triangle formula, area of a parallelogram and plain posters for each of the formulas. The design posters were created to be colored, and the plain posters are available if a student chooses to create their own design. By coloring or drawing these posters, the student will better memorize/learn the formulas. The designs are created with some repetitious focus on the formula, some design related

Good for Basketball Season! This PowerPoint introduces an algebraic expression that can be used to determine a team's score by calculating each of the players' points in a fictitious game. The expression is 3a + 2b + c, which is used to calculate a player's total points where "a" represents the number of 3-point shots, "b" represents the number of 2-point shots, and "c" represents the number of free throws. I used this as a follow-up assignment after "going" on a virtual field trip to watch

This product was created to help students know why we need to learn about equations. This product uses the jobs "Party Planner" and "Baker" to walk students through how equations are used in these two fields. The idea is to have the students personally involved in the job/field to see and comprehend why having knowledge of using equations is important. This product was designed for upper elementary or middle school students, but could be used in other grade levels. My students really enjoyed wo

This product includes two major parts to helping students learn to solve word problems. There are 6 steps, each represented by a train car that may be displayed as a train set on a wall or a bulletin board, and the product includes a graphic organizer showing the six steps and providing room for student responses. Since solving word problems use as much (or more) of reading skills as they use math skills, this set of steps includes the 3 reads and 3 other steps: illustrating the problem, studyi

This product consists of an (8.5x11-size) design poster of the formula, d=rt, ready for coloring. By coloring this poster, the student will better memorize/learn the formula. The poster design was created with some repetitious focus on the formula, some design related to the formula, is "personalized" by the student through coloring, and may be posted on the classroom walls for referencing. The coloring or creating of the posters may be given as homework, to early finishers, on a day with a s